Playing iMovies on a Windows PC

Probably a simple one but I've made a movie I want to show at work where we only have Windows PCs.
I burnt the movie to a CD but it won't play on the PC - it also won't download from .Mac Gallery
What do I need to do?
Many thanks
TED

Hi Karsten
This is an odd one, though, isn't it? I have uploaded a movie to Mac Gallery and all my Mac-using friends can see it OK, but NONE of my Windows-using friends seem to be able to get the movie to play. And they all have the latest version of Quicktime for Windows and are running XP. It seems simple enough - it's a QuickTime movie on a website. Why won't it play for them? Is there something I'm missing here? Is there something Apple is missing?

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